An all-regime Lagrange-Projection like scheme for the gas dynamics equations on unstructured meshes

Christophe Chalons (1) , Mathieu Girardin (2, 3) , Samuel Kokh (4, 3)

1 LMV - Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Versailles
2 LJLL - Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions
3 STMF - Service de Thermo-hydraulique et de Mécanique des Fluides
4 MDLS - Maison de la Simulation

We propose an all regime Lagrange-Projection like numerical scheme for the gas dynamics equations. By all regime, we mean that the numerical scheme is able to compute accurate approximate solutions with an under-resolved discretization, i.e. a mesh size and time step much bigger than the Mach number M. The key idea is to decouple acoustic and transport phenomenon and then alter the numerical flux in the acoustic approximation to obtain a uniform truncation error in term of M. This modified scheme is conservative and endowed with good stability properties with respect to the positivity of the density and the internal energy. A discrete entropy inequality under a condition on the modification is obtained thanks to a reinterpretation of the modified scheme in the Harten Lax and van Leer formalism. A natural extension to multi-dimensional problems discretized over unstructured mesh is proposed. Then a simple and efficient semi implicit scheme is also proposed. The resulting scheme is stable under a CFL condition driven by the (slow) material waves and not by the (fast) acoustic waves and so verifies the all regime property. Numerical evidences are proposed and show the ability of the scheme to deal with tests where the flow regime may vary from low to high Mach values.

Domaines: Analyse numérique [math.NA]

Christophe Chalons, Mathieu Girardin, Samuel Kokh. An all-regime Lagrange-Projection like scheme for the gas dynamics equations on unstructured meshes. 2014. ⟨hal-01007622v2⟩